How to pronounce “slough” in English

They slough off skin once a year.

The north wall sloughed into the water.

And the fact that the word "slough" in English means "an unproductive area" I just find a really nice irony.

And so that mucin that's sloughing off is actually being digested and promoting-- the mucin is decorated with particular sugars that promote the metabolism of beneficial bacteria.

And you can see that one of the laminar pieces is sloughing off and starting to be digested by the bacteria.

There's a really important part of the book where I go to Elkhorn Slough, which has amazing bird life.

Because this whole idea of impressionism, it was basically a disparaging term to sort of slough people off.

Saliva actually doesn't have cells, but it does have cells that are sloughed off from inside your mouth.

You can see from this slope here, these communities-- you can see how this land is sloughing off here-- these communities need to think very hard about,

potentially, a landslide, when the rains come, and so forth, and those hillsides slough off-- so disaster risk reduction is really important.

It's kind of a matter of stepping away from the computer and giving yourself the walk down the hallway to just kind of slough things off and shift

your hours, your flexibility, whatever it is, it can feel like a sloughing off of duties, and you're asking people who've been filling in for you to give

"Anna and John Bingham too look toward the approaching spectacle that had burst forth from a stand of scrub trees that stood at the edge of the sloughue they had been skirting